Teaching Software: Illinois Compass

Adding and Deleting Users

In Illinois Compass, all user and roster management is done through the grade book. CITES automatically adds your roster of students to your Illinois Compass course. Rosters are added within the first few days of class each semester. CITES EdTech will update the rosters daily, Monday through Friday, until the end of the official add period (the tenth day of class).
Note: Because students may have work or grades associated with a particular course site, CITES EdTech does not remove students who have dropped a course from a course site's roster. Instructors who want to deny access to dropped students should either make the course site unavailable to those students or remove the students manually.

Adding a Student

Choose the Teach tab and click on Grade Book.

From the toolbar at the top, click on Enroll Members.

In the User name text box, enter the student's NetID. Under "Assign roles," select Student.

Click Enroll.

Repeat steps 3-5 for each student that needs to be added. Click Save.

Adding a TA

As a Designer:

1. From the Members or View All tab, click Add Members. The Add Members to Section screen appears.
2. In the "User name" text box, enter the designer's NetID.
3. Under "Assign roles," select Section Designer.
4. Click Add.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 for each designer that needs to be added.
6. Click Save.

as a TA:

1. From the Members or View All tab, click Add Members. The Add Members to Section screen appears.
2. In the "User name" text box, enter the TA's NetID.
3. Under "Assign roles," select Teaching Assistant.
4. Click Add.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 for each TA that needs to be added.
6. Click Save.

Deleting a Student

From the Members, View All, or Custom View tab, you can remove members individually or you can remove more than one member at a time.

To remove an individual member, locate the member and left click on their last name. A dropdown menu appears. Click on Remove Member.

A confirmation message appears. Click OK to remove the member.

To remove more than one member, s elect the check box next to the name of each member that you want to remove. Click on the Remove button.

A confirmation message appears. Click OK to remove the members.

To remove all members, s elect the check box in the table heading row. All members are selected. Click on the Remove button.

A confirmation message appears. Click OK to remove all members.

Denying/Granting Access

It is important to note that once you delete students from the grade book, all of their grade data will also be deleted. Therefore, rather than deleting students from your course, you may wish to simply deny them access. This feature is especially helpful at the end of the semester when you do not want students to access the course anymore, but you need to keep students' grades in Illinois Compass until you are able to archive your grade book.

Select the check box next to the name of each student who you want to deny access. Click on the Deny Access button. Conversely, to grant access to a student, click on Grant Access.

The red icon that appears next to the student's name indicates that she or he has been denied access to the course.